Tom O'Lincoln
Tom O'Lincoln is an American born Marxist historian, author and one of the founders of the International Socialist Tendency in Australia.[1] He attended UC Berkeley in 1966 and joined the International Socialists who had participated in the Free Speech Movement two years earlier. He has produced first-hand accounts of the 1974-5 revolution in Portugal, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the Philippines after the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos, the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev, and the upheavals against Suharto in Indonesia.[2] He is currently a member of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative, as well as its electoral alliance party Victorian Socialists, and an editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions.[3]
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | Australian labor history |
| Political party | Socialist Alternative Victorian Socialists |
Selected books
- The Highway is for Gamblers: A Political Memoir, with Janey Stone, Interventions. Melbourne, 2017,
- Neighbour from Hell, Interventions, Melbourne, 2014.
- Australia's Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth, Interventions, Melbourne, 2011.
- Rebel Women in Australian Working Class History, (Co-editor with Sandra Bloodworth), Red Rag, Melbourne, 2008.
- United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia, Red Rag, Melbourne, 2005.
- Class and Class Conflict in Australia, (Co-editor with Rick Kuhn) Longman Australia, Melbourne, 1996.
- Years of Rage: Social Conflicts in the Fraser Era, Bookmarks Australia, Melbourne, 1993.
- Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism, Stained Wattle Press, Sydney 1985.
Selected articles
- Why there's nothing good about Australian nationalism, Socialist Alternative, Edition 124, January 2008.
- Trade unions and revolutionary oppositions: a survey of classic Marxist writings, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, 2008.
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External links
References
- "Who’s who on this site" Marxist interventions, 2009. Accessed: July 3, 2009.
- "Highlights" Marxism 2009. Accessed: July 3, 2009.
- "Marxist interventions 1, 2009" Marxist interventions, 2009. Accessed: July 3, 2009.
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